Over the past couple of years, the procurement management function has become the core part of the e-Government activites in Korea. The Korean government initiated the e-Govermment projects to provide a better service thorough more efficient givernmen...
Over the past couple of years, the procurement management function has become the core part of the e-Government activites in Korea. The Korean government initiated the e-Govermment projects to provide a better service thorough more efficient givernment administration. One of the core e-government project was an e-procurement service using the government e-procurement system. The e-procurenment service project has been so successful that the Korean Public Procurement Service (PPS) was awarded UN Public Service Award in 2003. It is expected that Korean government agencies will save large amount of money by implementing the e-procurement systems for public purchases. This paper provides a case study of the Korean Public Procurement Service’s e-procurement service. The case study is based on Information strategic planning for the Korean government’s e-procurement service project, and includes definition of government e-procurement service, in-depth analysis on government procurement service and processes, identification of procurement-related organizations, the Korean government’s e-procurenment vision/strategy, and the expected benefits from the government e-procurement service project.